Feedback's blue eyes

The advertisement for The Economist is referring to phenotype, not genotype. "Blue eyes from mother" means one blue-eye gene from the mother, who is apparently also blue-eyed, and one blue-eye gene from the father, whom we must presume to be brown-eyed (or green-eyed) but heterozygouscarrying one (recessive) blue-eye gene.

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